Finally some progress on the metal panels on the upper setbacks
In looking forward to the elevator coming down to see the buildingâs true profile and weight on the skyline.
Agreed here. I think itâll look far more slender than the current profile suggests once the elevator is removed.
I now have three different âvantage pointsâ posted on this thread - a street view, a vicinity view, and now a skyline view. Enjoy. 
I like the seeing the Chrysler building off to the side; looking at all these new modern buildings rising up all around. It reminds me of one of my earlier posts on this thread⌠
Very funny.
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270 Park Ave update
You can clearly see the LED channels in this video. Theyâre going to light this thing up like a Christmas tree 
Yes, mustâve missed my post 
This tower will have 2 âdifferentâ types of lighting
A one sided cove lighting that will illuminate the diagrid framing on the W/E sides of the building in a soft fashion (shown in red). Only the inside of the punch outs of the fan columns will be illuminated with the cove lighting, the outer face of the actual fan column cladding wonât be lit up.
And visible streaks of lighting (this is what is visible on the panels being installed on the video) on the N/S sides some way up the tower and the mechanical floor âscreensâ on all 4 sides (shown in blue). The conference floors on the top of the 4th tier are not lit on the exterior like the mechanical lighting above and below them, rather the lighting is on the inside of the panels (shown in light blue).
Laying to rest Walpoleâs dream of a water feature. 
I feel like weâre gonna see the lighting for this tower complete before 111 West 57thâs lighting. How sad
I suspect the 111 lighting is dead. When they tried it out some time ago most of it didnât work. As I recall itâs embedded in the facade sections. Itâs hard to image how it could be repaired now that the building is complete. Whoever designed, engineered, and/or built it put together a kludge.
Pathetic. Even if the facade lighting doesnât work they just threw their hands up for the âchandelierâ crown and gave up.
I totally believe it!!! Truly insane to think of how much thought, money, and time was put into installing the lights just for them to scrap it 
Along with CPT, it wouldâve been nice seeing these modern buildings light up at night 
As I said in the Manhattan West thread,
Between the World Trade Center, Central Park tower, and this, I just wonder why the lighting engineers can produce such a lousy product in some of the most expensive and high profile projects of their kind in the country. In most industries that would be career ending.
Itâs actually insane to me how these lighting designers donât get sued into oblivion by developers for their abject failure to deliver on almost a single new build lighting project in this millennium. The only one that comes to mind is One Vanderbilt. Everything else has been a disaster. It is as if they fundamentally donât understand how to wire these systems with even the vaguest shred of resiliency or repairability. No major skyline anywhere else in the world seems to have this issue.
Not the failed lighting discussionsâŚ
Like I always say but seem to always be disregarded, lighting designers only design the lighting and choose the fixtures, they are not the ones responsible for installing the fixtures, that would fall onto the electricians and the contractor.
And the second point I always make is that people/developers/owners/whoever can change their minds, they might not care about lighting their building anymore or care to upkeep it, thatâs not a hard thing to believe. In the overall cost of a project, with a developer who doesnt care about cost, the amount lost in what went into proposed lighting is insignificant.
Outside of that there are so many more things occurring behind the scenes for things like lighting and many other things that relate to a building to we do not know about, why make assumptions when we donât know the full story or intent of why things are not happening or happening?
Both can be true at once. Durst doesnât care about maintaining the 1WTC lighting, but it is abnormal that the podium lighting system blows out literal hundreds LED strips per month that should theoretically be lasting many years. Thatâs a design flaw in the system, as is the fact that the LEDs for the hidden stairway exit doors along the first floor are sealed with no way to replace the lights meaning they have been broken and flashing random colors almost since opening day. I absolutely blame the designer for those kinds of oversights.
Central Park Towerâs lighting looked like garbage when it was tested which seems to be why it was shelved. Again, thatâs kind of on the designer as very little value engineering was going on at that property.